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Allen, Debbie,
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Houston (Tex.)
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Coleman, C. Sweet Charity [SR] p1986:
container (Debbie Allen as Sweet Charity)
PBS WWW site, 15 Oct. 2004:
Free to dance, biographies (Debbie Allen, born 16 Jan. 1950, Houston, Tex.; dancer)
Amistad, c2004:
credits (Debbie Allen)
IMDb, September 13, 2007
(Debbie Allen; director, actress, producer, writer)
Black Women in America, Second Edition, accessed June 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
(Allen, Debbie; dancer, stage/ screen actor, choreographer / dance director, motion picture producer / director, radio/ television producer/ director; born 16 January 1950 in Houston, Texas, United States; was the Houston Foundation for Ballet's first black dancer; studied speech and theater at Howard University; studied at the National Ballet School; became head of the dance department of the Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts; graduated cum laude from Howard (1971); went back to Broadway for "Raisin" (1973-1975) and for a revival of "West Side Story"; received the prestigious Drama Desk Award and her first Tony nomination; an actor, choreographer, director, and producer of the "Fame" television series; won her two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe; a third Emmy for her choreography for "Motown 30" (1990); appeared on Broadway in Bob Fosse's revival of "Sweet Charity" (1986) and received her second Tony nomination; choreographed for the Academy Awards show (1991-1994); produced Steven Spielberg's "Amistad" (1997); wrote first children's book, "Brothers of the Knight" (1999); opened the Debbie Allen Dance Academy (2001); co-produced, choreographed and hosted a reality television talent search entitled Fame (2003))
IMDb, February 5, 2020:
(Debbie Allen, actress, producer, director ; b. January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas, USA)
Individual was an Emmy awardee and a Golden Globe awardee.